wow. just got an email from the Studio with their list of upcoming gigs over the next few months. amongst the many good acts coming up is...
the straitjacket fits
at first I thought it must have just been a mistake, but a quick reply email confirms it's not.
might I just say, crikey.
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sweet jesus, the world just became a ...
sweet jesus, the world just became a better place.
OMG!?!?! Right I knew all my bad ...
OMG!?!?!
Right I knew all my bad luck this morning had to be evened out (cold shower followed by twisting my ankle on the steps and then cracking my head on the handrail, crap callers at work and feeling ill!) by something monumental!
That is a brilliant surprise :-)
// sweet jesus, the world just became a ...
// sweet jesus, the world just became a better place.
x2
Oh, how exciting! Does anyone know ...
Oh, how exciting!
Does anyone know what the line-up will be? Will Andrew Brough be along for the ride?
further email enquries were met with a ...
further email enquries were met with a polite 'press release to come' fob off.
Aww fuck. I'll be overseas by then. ...
Aww fuck. I'll be overseas by then. For the love of God, can someone record the gig!
Crikey, indeed. Unlike the BDO, that ...
Crikey, indeed. Unlike the BDO, that is probably enough to inspire a trip north, if there's no word of any gig down here when said press release emanates. What is the date of the gig, for those of us not on the Studio mailing list?
it was just a 'coming soon...' type ...
it was just a 'coming soon...' type of affair.
I've just heard from the Studio: 22 ...
I've just heard from the Studio: 22 and 23 April. Now to see if there will be other shows around the place.
If there ever was a band who could step ...
If there ever was a band who could step up to the bar, it had to be Straitjacket Fits. This is a great day for their beloved fans!!! I'm sold on it!!!!!!
omigod. omigod omigod omigod ...
omigod.
omigod omigod omigod omigod.
elvis - er um, yep.
Don't go there. I'm feeling postal....
Don't go there. I'm feeling postal.
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word on the street. touring in ...
word on the street. touring in April.
umm..def not missing this one.
I was on the street, I heard the word ...
I was on the street, I heard the word too...
oh PLEASE! come to ...
oh PLEASE! come to dunedin!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you bastards!~
Seconded. This is tops, I hope ...
Seconded.
This is tops, I hope Brough is there, but it'll be great either way I guess!
Wow! WOW!!!!! *doing dance of joy ...
Wow!
WOW!!!!!
*doing dance of joy around office*
I SWEAR I was just listening to 'Burn It Up' last night, thinking to myself what an absolute work of art that song is, with a little tear in the corner of my eye, thinking about home... I can't wait to find out if Andy & Shayne have buried the hatchet...
God- it was good news at first- now it's SHEER TORTURE thinking about the possible line-up...
I was listening to a few of their ...
I was listening to a few of their tracks yesterday too ... I hate to be obvious, but Down in Splendour is fantastic.
Life in One Chord!! Always loved ...
Life in One Chord!!
Always loved that song - was lucky enough to see the fits a couple of time before they broke up (once witj Andrew)... ahhh good times :-)
hearing the harmony chorus in bad note ...
hearing the harmony chorus in bad note for a heart...
I wonder if it was so apparent to ...
I wonder if it was so apparent to Shayne when Dimmer started to do a version of , 'If I were you'...4 the Greylynn Bowling Club gig.....I'm stoked!!!!
there's a bit of a story about it on ...
there's a bit of a story about it on the late news tonight - in the 3rd part (starts around half 10) - no words from the band but a little archive footage thats woth a look if you're home....
And from this we learn that the Fits ...
And from this we learn that the Fits will be doing a four-date tour of the ol' four main centres - Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Their final date will be in Dunedin in May.
But there's still no word as to whether Andrew Brough will be part of the reunited line-up.
they better bloody have Mark Petersen. ...
they better bloody have Mark Petersen. i can't believe no one's said that yet, it must be so fricken obvious. his stuff (geetar and backing vocals) on Blow is cataclysmically great.
better bloody have Mark and Andrew. and better bloody be bloody loud too.
ah, what the hell, it doesn't matter, i'm so there anyway.
any requests? good grief in a handbasket but boy oh boy am i hanging out to hear
Train, and
Way, and
Burn it up, and
Grate (ooooh that will be good loud!) and
Missing Presumed Drowned (i will lose my voice on that one)
and APS would be fantastic with the Andrew lush wall of sound, and that mean arpeggio bearing down, yummy, and ...
Skin to Wear (a lil meanie that tune, but by gum, the end - kiwi music doesn't get much better than that ... that B to E lead riff so simple and so appropriate, at least i think it's B to E - i'm tired and drunk and haven't bothered tuning and playing along on a bass)
and of course Cast Stone, that beeeeutiful apocalypse of nastytriffic sounds. that song was the soundtrack to me not doing any study for the exams in my honours year but lying in the sun on my flatmate's bed in one of those Dundas Street terrace flats ...
perhaps we should have a poll or top five of most looked-forward to tunes ...
what brilliant news. those songs all need to be played live. i don't know if they could ever be played enough. sob. i'll shut up now. sorry.
Hey iluvtheclean, can you please give ...
Hey iluvtheclean, can you please give me an email, I have a question for you.
Thank you,
emeraldgreenmusic(at)hotmail.com
A stellar performance of APS would ...
A stellar performance of APS would leave me happy.
Is Andrew Brough going to be to be ...
Is Andrew Brough going to be to be there?
Andrew Brough was invited to join the ...
Andrew Brough was invited to join the reunion but 'declined'
I guess time may never heal old wounds?
he declined according to their press ...
he declined according to their press release.
i checked ticketek and they're saying $28 for chch, $35 for akl and wel
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The line up will be Carter..of ...
The line up will be
Carter..of course
David Wood
John Collie
and Mark Peterson
They play
the studio - 22/23rd of April
Bodega - 29/30th of April
Civic (chch) 6th of May
Sammys (Duners) 7th of May
oooh. sammy's. Kinda reminscent of the ...
oooh. sammy's. Kinda reminscent of the dunedin sound series in 2000(?) which were of course reminiscent of...
Bodega? I mean it's a lovely place but ...
Bodega? I mean it's a lovely place but it won't fit 10% of the people who will want to be at those gigs (even with two dates)...
Damn I was hoping for the old town hall :-)
hmm time to buy some tickets before ...
hmm time to buy some tickets before they all sell out
//sammy's. I suspected it would be ...
//sammy's.
I suspected it would be there - I'd heard that the Radio One birthday bash was going to be there, then that the SJF gig was ending in Dunedin to help celebrate Radio One's 21st. Apparently, Sammy's is keen to actually put on some gigs, which might be a good thing.
It'd be great if they tried to have ...
It'd be great if they tried to have some more gigs there ... it's a nice bigger space for gigs where the smaller venues just won't cut it. And it's a much nicer space than the union hall. Maybe it's the higher roof, and also nice to have a circle as well.
mmmm dunedin is missing a decent sized ...
mmmm dunedin is missing a decent sized venue....town hall has ZERO atmosphere.
sammy's rocks! would love to have an Inferno fm gig there
the union and the glenroy have no ...
the union and the glenroy have no atmosphere. Both the regent and the townhall are good, *if* they have a big enough crowd. But in the case of the townhall, that means you need at least 2000 punters, if not three. Sammy's is a good mid-size.
which is the glenroy? it sounds ...
which is the glenroy? it sounds familiar. isnt that the diary? ive seen a few punters packed in there.
no thats the rob roy right? i miss it....
no thats the rob roy right? i miss it.
The glenroy is down the sifty ...
The glenroy is down the sifty side-street by the townhall. It's an auditorium/chamber music design. A goodshirt/fur patrol concert, possibly kind of all ages in the afternoon, with no pies?
the rob roy is all class. mmmmmmilkshakes.
wonder if their old sax player ...
wonder if
their old sax
player will
be there
After what Shayne Carter said about ...
After what Shayne Carter said about those glory chord days - how he was over all that, it seems a bit ironic that they are reforming. If ironic is the right word (I'm a moron)
I know what you mean, but he's moved ...
I know what you mean, but he's moved so far away from rock music in the last couple of years that I can understand that he may feel a bit nostalgic for it now :-)
Hell Dimmer started out as pretty much a rock band :-)
but he almost slagged off straitjacket ...
but he almost slagged off straitjacket fits for a while there when the first Dimmer album came out, like the music was juvenile, big chord change ego stuff.
Then he said something like " yeah I have listened to the old stuff, and some of it rocks". Oh common, like he wouldn't know his own songs backwards.
//like the music was juvenile, big ...
//like the music was juvenile, big chord change ego stuff//
um...not that I think that, I really like sjf, and was a bit annoyed when he said stuff like this.....
Those studio mailers are written L G ...
Those studio mailers are written L G Martin $ sons.
I wonder if this will be just a victory lap.?...
Well, i don't think he was slagging ...
Well, i don't think he was slagging off the SJF. just that he didn't want to be playing the same stuff 20 years later and that he had grown and matured and the music he wanted to make was now different.
These will be great fun these gigs. A shame, I can't get to them as I am in the UK. SJF, I think, were the best NZ band and to see and hear these guys in action would bring a tear to my eye!!